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Power supplier Vistra expects to take a $1 billion hit from Texas’ epic winter storm Gas and electric companies are beginning to sort out the toll from the freeze that left millions of Texans without power. FILE - This Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, file photo shows power lines in Houston. When an unusually heavy winter storm blanketed much of Texas with snow, knocking out electricity to millions of homes and leaving many struggling to find clean water, one sector of the population was particularly...

Miss. getting $5.62M grant to improve health, education responses in pandemic The grant is funded through the CARES Act. (Source: Christine T. Nguyen/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) By WLBT Digital | February 26, 2021 at 10:43 AM CST - Updated February 26 at 10:51 AM WASHINGTON, D.C. - (WLBT) - Mississippi is getting a great big grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. The $5.26 million grant, funded through the CARES Act, is expected to improve health and educatio...

Feb 24, 2021 HAMBURG – Nord Stream 2, the almost-finished pipeline running directly from Russia to Germany, is not really about securing cheap natural gas. It is about personal gain and these two countries’ national interest. The pipeline across the Baltic has pitted the United States and the European Union against Germany, and a swelling chorus of domestic critics against German Chancellor Angela Merkel. If it were just a matter of gas molecules, the project might never have seen ...

Is your electric bill too high? If you haven’t checked lately, you’re probably paying too much Many people treat their electricity as a cost that they want to actively manage. Others just want a reasonable monthly utility bill. The headline-grabbing electric bills in the thousands of dollars, while real, won’t be the norm for most Texans. But in the aftermath of last week’s freezing temperatures that exposed many to unprecedented electric bills, Texans are discovering how complicated t...

Millions of Texans lost power last week during a historic winter storm. Texas state lawmakers on Thursday will hold the first of what will likely be many hearings in response to the blackout that gripped Texas last week. They will discuss what happened and how to stop it from happening again. They will also be using a lot of jargon that hardly anyone understands. For those of you who want to follow along, heres a glossary of terms youll likely be hearing a lot in the coming months. Hopefully t...

‘We were trapped’: Texans facing $10,000-plus electricity bills are desperate for relief Haley Samsel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, (TNS) FORT WORTH, Texas — The offer seemed almost too good to be true: Sign up for a low Costco-like membership fee, pay market prices for electricity and potentially save big on utility bills. That’s what drove Roland Whitaker, a Decatur rancher and oil worker, to enroll with electricity provider Griddy after hearing an advertisement on radio station WBAP. Fo...

Germany’s empty pipeline logic Feb 23,2021 - Last updated at Feb 23,2021 HAMBURG — Nord Stream 2, the almost-finished pipeline running directly from Russia to Germany, is not really about securing cheap natural gas. It is about personal gain and these two countries’ national interest. The pipeline across the Baltic has pitted the United States and the European Union against Germany, and a swelling chorus of domestic critics against Chancellor Angela Merkel. If it were just a matter of gas...

Why? The majority of Texas residents are on a fixed-rate plan, where the price per kilowatt hour (kWh) is locked in, and the bill is based on usage. However, some are on whats called a variable-rate electricity plan, where the price paid per kWh used fluctuates based partly on the wholesale price of electricity, could see sky high bills in the next month or so due to the sharp escalation of wholesale electricity prices during last weeks winter storm. According to the plan comparison website Ele...

PUC: Most Texans wont see hike in electric bills Texas Public Utilities Commission said most Texans will not see a dramatic spike in their electric bills as a result of the recent winter storm. "Because most residential electricity customers are on fixed-price contracts with their power providers, they are not exposed to changes in their rates," the commission said in a statement released Sunday. Some Texans complained on social media and elsewhere they were being hit by exorbitant electric bil...

Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars? Alex Clark It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an ent...